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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-31

SD @ WSH

Home plate: Dan Merzel

“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.1% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, WSH
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Dan Merzel called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 117 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.

The zone, as he called it

Challenge 1: Freddy Fermin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Xander Bogaerts — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Miguel Andujar — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Jorbit Vivas vs Griffin Canning
  2. 2+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Freddy Fermin vs Zack Littell
  3. 3+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball
    Jacob Young vs Griffin Canning

Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.

ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System

4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Xander Bogaerts — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  3. 3Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Miguel Andujar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.